Example sentences of "could [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experiments using the simulation model are thus made possible ; an example given earlier showed how a planner could modify a river-basin simulation model to allow for the expansion of an urban area . |
| 2 | It is also possible that small intestinal overgrowth with deconjugating bacteria was present in some cases , which could counteract a concomitant effect of ileal dysfunction on bile acid synthesis . |
| 3 | Cluster groups of schools could conduct a joint review , sharing their experiences . |
| 4 | Their willingness to do so was confirmed by Libya 's foreign minister , Ibrahim Bechari , who said that Western investigators were welcome in Libya and that the Libyan judge looking into the allegations , Ahmed al-Zawi , would like to have more US or Scottish evidence in the case so that he could conduct a solid interrogation of the two men . |
| 5 | Health Department guidelines supported by the college say that HIV-infected health care workers could conduct a normal delivery as long as it did not involve invasive surgery . |
| 6 | We could stay a few extra days and make a holiday of it . |
| 7 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 8 | Neither did I. I never imagined that a father could treat a dying child as cruelly and wickedly as we later discovered Heathcliff had done . |
| 9 | Poulson and Associates made it clear that they were not a ‘ financial development company ’ but that they could locate a suitable such investor for the scheme . |
| 10 | Sir Paul would be grateful if Commander Dalgliesh could spare a few minutes to see him . |
| 11 | It could explain a wide range of phenomena . |
| 12 | If both these exclusions were accepted , the throne was Philip 's , if it were allowed that a woman could transmit a right but not exercise it , the throne was Edward 's . |
| 13 | On other issues , such as nuclear weapons , it could construct a broad enough coalition to determine party policy ( or , at the very least , limit Mr Kinnock 's room for manoeuvre ) . |
| 14 | Fortunately , overseas investors perceive the UK as an area of political stability ; it seems that in spite of the Danish referendum EC monetary convergence may continue , so the UK could remain a major beneficiary of inward capital flows . |
| 15 | If plant and animal production is made much more efficient in its use of resources , food surpluses could remain a recurring problem , certainly in the short term . |
| 16 | Although the Church of the period lamented Charles ' sexual vigour and lack of suppressive morality , to the modern imagination it seems remarkable that he could rule a vast empire and still have time to devote to three concubines . |
| 17 | The pueblo was a moral , economic , and governmental unit : as a centre of government the larger municipalities could rule a surrounding area as large as a small English county . |
| 18 | However , to the group as a whole , the variable costs amount to only £70 ( £30 + £40 ) and it could earn a positive contribution by accepting the order . |
| 19 | But the dealers were alert to new traces , if only because a single coin — the bronze ears of barley on the local currency of Rubi , with Demeter 's garlanded head on the obverse — might lead , like a broken twig , a crackle of a dry leaf , to greater treasure ; the boys could earn a lustrous fizzy drink from the new carbonator , or a cigarette in the cafe , with a promise to show the location of the trivial find . |
| 20 | It is clear that among the more prosperous merchants in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries there was the first beginning of a tendency towards specialization , in types of goods carried and markets exploited ; but growing trade , freer movements of peoples , no doubt enhanced the number of folk who could earn a few pennies peddling or carting . |
| 21 | The proponents of unitary authorities in the Royal Commission on Local Government in England accepted a need for a wider authority for some services in the metropolitan areas and for an authority that could prepare a strategic plan for conurbations . |
| 22 | So that er , Woodrow could experience a full sense of self , to actually relate back to his himself , which er , Wilson er , experienced only as a child . |
| 23 | For any particular trade a period of bad times could change things , and secondly , some trades could experience a permanent decline , leaving members with only a fading memory of better times . |
| 24 | It is unlikely that even the most devious psychologist could devise a behavioural test , other than navigation , that would harness that computational ability . |
| 25 | ‘ If only we could devise a safe way of laying our hands on all that money , ’ murmured Pugwash , whose greed was as proverbial as his cowardice . |
| 26 | Those that wanted little more than routine audits have been redirected to other firms , allowing Robson Rhodes to concentrate on those with which it felt it could build a long-term relationship as ‘ a business counsellor ’ . |
| 27 | We could build a stable , put them at the bottom of the garden and how expensive the |
| 28 | ‘ We could build a nice garden there . ’ |
| 29 | That Romania could build a nuclear weapon at the moment is unlikely . |
| 30 | But if the democracies seized the opportunity then , under Russian leadership , they could build a transnational movement capable of imposing peace on Allied and German militarists alike . |